The man who was sentenced to death (who you claim to have pardoned although you didn't provide us with evidence of his pardoning) should never have been sentenced to death. He should've got a decade in prison for firing that shot but who should've got the death penalty should've been the government official that this body guard was escorting.
Secondly, the marxuum, Allah ya raxma, was pretty naive and idealist to begin with. Walahi I saw the danger he was in the moment I've seen him CCTV Africa news channel. His optimistic view of the hell-hole was divorced from reality.